92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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Closely Watched Trains
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Wednesday Jan 6, 2010 (8–10pm)
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$12
Part of the series Closely Watched Films, hosted by Elliott Kalan.
Young Miloš Hrma would love to concentrate on his new job at a sleepy railway outpost in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, if only he could manage to get rid of his pesky virginity. If American Pie had been filmed behind the Iron Curtain by Wes Anderson, it would look a lot like Closely Watched Trains. Political parable, touching portrait of human frailty and the most gorgeously shot teen sex comedy ever made, Closely Watched Trains has it all. No wonder it won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film!
Host Elliott Kalan will discuss the Soviet-plagued career of director Jiri Menzel, the extra-special deadpan-ness of eastern European comedy and the complete accuracy of the film’s portrayal of sexually frustrated young adulthood.
Director: Jirí Menzel. 93 min. 1966. 16mm.
